q-series with Applications to Combinatorics,

Number Theory and Physics.

October 26-28, 2000

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.



 
 

Plenary Speakers
Scott Ahlgren (Colgate University)
George Andrews (Penn State University)
Richard Askey (University of Wisconsin)
Anne Schilling (MIT)
Dennis Stanton (University of Minnesota)
Special Note: Some of the plenary lectures will highlight open problems and future trends.
Invited Speakers


Krishnaswami Alladi (University of Florida)
Douglas Bowman (University of Illinois)
Youn-Seo Choi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)
Thomas Ernst (Uppsala University)
Tina Garrett (University of Minnesota)
Frank Garvan (University of Florida)
Christian Krattenthaler (University of Vienna)
Jeremy Lovejoy (University of Wisconsin)
Steve Milne (Ohio State University)
Katsuhisa Mimachi (Kyushu University)
Morris Newman (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Peter Paule (University of Linz)
Sasha Polishchuk (Boston University)
Sergei Suslov (Arizona State University)
Ole Warnaar (Melbourne University)
Sander Zwegers (University of Utrecht)

Contributed Talks
(September 15, 2000 Deadline for titles and abstracts)


David Bradley (University of Maine, Orono)
Matthew Boylan (University of Wisconsin)
Guemlan Choi (University of Illinois)
Shaun Cooper (University of Minnesota)
Sylvie Corteel (Universite de Versailles)
Larry Ericksen
Yasushi Kajihara (Kobe University)
Louis Kolitsch (University of Tennessee at Martin)
Zhi Guo Liu (Xinxiang University)
Richard McIntosh (University of Regina)
David Penniston (Furman University)
Axel Riese (University of Linz)
Neville Robbins (San Francisco State University)
Michael Schlosser (Ohio State University)
Slobodan Trickovic (Nis University, Yuogslavia)
Jan Felipe van Diejen (Universidad Chile)
Ae Ja Yee (KAIST, Korea)

Schedule of Events
October 26, 2000 Conference Banquet (Illini Union)
October 27, 2000 Concert by C. Krattenthaler (Levis Faculty Center)
October 28, 2000 Party (Home of Bruce and Helen Berndt).
Registration: Fill out the Registration form with checks made payable to the University of Illinois, and return them to:


Bruce Berndt
Department of Mathematics
1409 W. Green Street
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois 61801

To be placed an an e-mail list, send an e-mail to berndt@math.uiuc.edu

Travel If you travel by air, we recommend that you book your flights into Champaign, Illinois. The Champaign Airport is relatively small, but it is conveniently located (a 15 minute drive to campus) and is served by four major airlines: American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, TWA and US Airways. The closest major airports are in Indianapolis (2 hours by car), Chicago (3 hours by car) and St. Louis (3 hours by car). If you decide to book your flight to one of these cities, we recommend that you rent a car at the airport and drive to Champaign, as public transportation between these cities and Champaign is not very convenient.
Visa Information.
Visa Types: The two main types of short term visas are B-1 and B-2. The B-1 visa is for business travel, while the B-2 visa is intended for tourist visits. Conference participants who require a visa and who expect to receive partial support for travel expenses must obtain a B-1 Business visa. Make sure that B-1 Business is indicated on your I-94 card. The University is not allowed to pay participants who have entered the US on a B-2 visa or a B-1 Tourist visa.


Visa Waivers:Visas are not necessary for participants from countries covered by the visa waiver program (which include most European countries, Australia and Japan). Visitors from those countries will be issued a visa waiver when passing through US Customs and Immigration. The waiver will be one of two forms: WB or WT. Participants expecting to receive partial support for travel expenses must obtain a WB waiver. The University is not allowed to pay participants who have entered the US on a WT waiver.

Venue and Hotel Reservations Click here for Venue and Hotel Information.
Conference Proceedings: We will publish a proceedings of this conference in the American Mathematical Society Contemporary Mathematics series. Papers must be submitted by January 1, 2001.
Funding: Due to generous support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Number Theory Foundation, financial support is available to a limited number of partcipants with some preference given to graduate students and new PhD's. To apply for this support, send e-mail to ono@math.wisc.edu by September 1, 2000.
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Organizers		 Bruce Berndt and Ken Ono